I have yet to understand why anyone - anywhere - even bothers to mention Exile in the same sentence yet idea of the Stones doing a new album. How come no one ever says Some Girls or Beggars or Bleed or Fingers? Why is it always Exile? And why would anyone say any of those anyway?

And why can't people get over the fact that those albums are three and four decades old and that the band is way past that band from back then?

The new CD should be called Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blues. I envision 18 songs:

Something Old-4 songs previously written and uncovered in the archives, like Plundered My Soul

Something New-6 new rock songs like Undercover or Too Much Blood

Something Borrowed-4 Chuck Berry or other artist covers

Something Blues-4 blues songs by Jagger and Richards, along the lines of Down in the Hole

For the CD cover, I picture this:

Something Old-Charlie Watts as the minister

Something New-Jagger is seated in an antique chair in a new wedding gown

Something Borrowed-Keith is wearing a rented tuxedo and proposing to Mick

Something Blue-Ronnie is seen in the background with a blue face, after having smoked way too much hashish

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Steel Wheels was pretty damn good.

Really? I think it's one of their worst right behind Dirty Work

When held up to comparison Steel Wheels is Exile/Beggars/Fingers/Bleed as Dirty Work is Their Satanic Majesties Request.

And when you take the comment that Steel Wheels was pretty damn good out of context, well, maybe, but when you have an album come out that actually has some songs on it compared to the previous (and mostly songless) album, there you go.

I don't know, the only thing I liked was Break The Spell on Steel Wheels when it came out, and that seemed like a leftover that they could do in their sleep. After 20+ years I still don't like Steel Wheels, I never listen to it. The only thing that got me to listen to it a little was the early rawer versions.

I think we were all just so glad in 1989 that they didn't break up we accepted SW cause it was better nothing.

I love Mick's voice these days. Keith's riffage is still great (ROUGH JUSTICE, DON'T STOP). Jeeze. People have the minds of tyrants on the internet, giving thumbs down like they think they're emperors in the Coliseum. Pathetic.

Short of a record with the original bass drums along with Taylor Wood I dont care. Yes buy Keith out and leave him home or call it a different name. Open G here or anybody with hot hands who has studied the form and has honest passion could take Rons place if he decided to stand down in deference to Richards. Ron would stay without even hesitating tho.

A 10 songs album really co-written by Mick and Keith; ie greasy and bluesy.

I hope that the Stones will continue to rock as on A Bigger Bang.

Flilflam,
I like these two parts for an album,
Something New,
Something Blue.
(Nice title, eh?)

They would have 5-6 new tunes, selected, best of the best they can write.
They would have 5-6 (old) blues covers. These would be arranged
particularly for the band, and could include faster as well as slower
songs.

My real wish is that Mick and Keith would work together very closely
on this album, that they would really compose in the same room for a
long period of time, at least several weeks.

Reading Keith's autobio, that's what seems to work best for them.
Also reading the book, what are the chances of that happening? Who knows.
Ronnie painted them all playing together in advance of ABB, in his work "The Conversation".

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I love Mick's voice these days. Keith's riffage is still great (ROUGH JUSTICE, DON'T STOP). Jeeze. People have the minds of tyrants on the internet, giving thumbs down like they think they're emperors in the Coliseum. Pathetic.

the emperor has spoken! ummmm....please put your clothes back on now?

Maximum 12 songs.
Good, 'gritty' producer.
Down-to-earth sound.
'lo-fi' production.
authentic sounding lead vocals (not the over-affected BS we've been getting for far too long, now).
Truely co-authored songs (Jagger, Richards, Wood).
One or two classics; one or two worldwide bestsellers.

Putting them where they truely belong (again): way up there...

["I can hear the Bullfrog calling me..."]

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Maximum 12 songs.
Good, 'gritty' producer.
Down-to-earth sound.
'lo-fi' production.
authentic sounding lead vocals (not the over-affected BS we've been getting for far too long, now).
Truely co-authored songs (Jagger, Richards, Wood).
One or two classics; one or two worldwide bestsellers.

Putting them where they truely belong (again): way up there...

ok. you know you only get three wishes from the genie, right?

I would like to see an album of the Stones re record their warhorses.
Keith has said the songs are just babies when they are first put out on record.
They they go out on tour to "grow them up"

INXS just re recorded some of their past catalogue with great results.
Would love to hear how some of the Stones songs have grown up

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Maximum 12 songs.
Good, 'gritty' producer.
Down-to-earth sound.
'lo-fi' production.
authentic sounding lead vocals (not the over-affected BS we've been getting for far too long, now).
Truely co-authored songs (Jagger, Richards, Wood).
One or two classics; one or two worldwide bestsellers.

Putting them where they truely belong (again): way up there...

ok. you know you only get three wishes from the genie, right?

...One can only hope...

P.S.: Dennycranium: that's a cool nickname! Assuming it's after the impressive Denny Crane character (brilliantly played by William 'Star Trek/ Captain Kirk' Shatner) from the series "Boston Legal"!??

["I can hear the Bullfrog calling me..."]

My hopes for the next album are already posted in a thread about the same topic from about a year ago. The band should just get into the studio, jam, write songs, really work on them, rehearse them and then when they finally are fully developed, record them live in a few takes. No cut and paste jobs anymore please. The concert version of "Streets Of Love" clearly shows that the album version was just a demo tape. Releasing a song in demo quality as both a single and album version doesn't do any band's legacy any good. The band hasn't been together for some years, so they'd better rehearse well before trying to record anything for release.

My hopes are that Rob Fraboni will record the band at Keith's place at Ocho Rios. Voodoo Lounge was recorded in the surroundings of Ronnie's (former) home in Dublin. A Bigger Bang was recorded in and around Mick's home in France. It should be Keith's turn now - or maybe even Charlie's - to play the host.